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Contingent Democrats in Action: Organized Labor and Regime Change in the Republic of Niger

Elischer, Sebastian - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2013

The effects of organized labor on regime change in developing countries are not clear-cut. Optimists argue that union agitation is conducive to both democratic transition and consolidation processes. Pessimists hold that unions will support any regime that is conducive to their demands....

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Negotiating Political Spaces: Social and Environmental Activism in the Chinese Countryside

Bondes, Maria - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2011

The proliferation of social organizations in China has engendered a lively debate about how to conceptualize these social forces. This paper argues that such a conceptualization should take into account the role that both the party?state and social actors attribute to social organizations. With...

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The Reform of China‘s Energy Policies

Betz, Joachim - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2013

China’s shift in energy policies has been broader, deeper and more successful than that of most other emerging economies, although the economic costs of this transition are tremendous because China is an over-industrialized country whose production is highly energy-intense and it depends on...

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Civic Organizations in Vietnam’s One-Party State: Supporters of Authoritarian Rule?

Wischermann, Jörg - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2013

Associationalism under authoritarian rule is not automatically a good thing. The empirical findings laid out in this article indicate that authoritarian dispositions and practices are prevalent in all types of Vietnamese civic organizations, at least as far as internal decision-making processes...

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The Role of Southern Actors in Global Governance: The Fight against HIV/AIDS

Bartsch, Sonja; Kohlmorgen, Lars - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2007

This paper analyses the role of actors from developing countries in global processes of pol-icy making and governance. To systematically examine the channels of influence of South-ern actors and the interactions in global governance it develops the concept of interfaces. It differentiates...

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Frames We Can Believe In: Official Framing and Ideology in the CCP’s Quest for Legitimacy

Bondes, Maria; Heep, Sandra - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2012

In the debate on authoritarian resilience, the importance of persuasion to regime legitimacy has been widely …) model of legitimacy, we contend that the ruling elites in authoritarian regimes propagate official frames in a continuous … in recent years reemphasized persuasion as a means of reproducing legitimacy. We then apply our theory in an analysis of …

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Measuring Party Institutionalization in Developing Countries: A New Research Instrument Applied to 28 African Political Parties

Basedau, Matthias; Stroh, Alexander - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2008

The institutionalization of political parties is said to be important for democratic development, but its measurement has remained a neglected area of research. We understand the institutionalization of political organizations as progress in four dimensions: roots in society, level of...

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Democratization via Elections in an African “Narco-state”? The Case of Guinea-Bissau

Kohner, Dirk - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2010

, did not contribute to democratization nor to the stabilization of volatile political, military and economic structures … based on dubious concepts. Certainly, the impact of drug trafficking could endanger democratization and state-building if …

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A Regional Power Promoting Democracy? India’s Involvement in Nepal (2005–2008)

Destradi, Sandra - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2010

, the paper analyzes the substantial role India came to play in the peace and democratization process in Nepal in the years …

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Lessons to Be Learned: Political Party Research and Political Party Assistance

Erdmann, Gero - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2010

Generally speaking, the effects of international political party assistance are viewed nega-tively, or at least controversially. This study attributes some of the shortcomings of political party aid to the poor relationship between assistance providers and political science party research. They...

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